People as sensors: Mass media and local temperature influence climate change discussion on Twitter

Kirilenko, Andrei; Molodtsova, T.; Степченкова, Светлана

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.11.003

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“…The news media have been, and will remain, important in communicating information to the public and decision makers about the science of climate change and solution strategies [1]. According to [48], the public is more likely to notice weather extremes than long-term incremental changes in mean climate variables. Newspapers have been criticized for not being able to grasp objective information, and for reflecting political tendencies, biases, context, and values as well as reported data [41,47,49].…”

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“…Reference [47] analyzed visual images attached to online articles about climate change between 2010 and 2013 in American, British, and Australian newspapers to identify broad patterns in the newspaper coverage of climate change. Reference [48] used Twitter to analyze how the mass media responds to "time variables", the "number of climate change publications in the mass media", and "temperature variables". Of these, the most important variables were found to be the temperature variables, suggesting that media coverage partly controls public attention.…”

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A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

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Park

2018

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Abstract:The risks caused by climate change are worsening worldwide, and it is recognized that national and regional responses to climate change are essential. This study therefore explores climate change risks that have been recognized as fatal to people and the environment by analyzing multi-influence factors that appear in multiple risk indicators. The climate change risks in this study are based on 73 existing risk indicators; the frame data for multi-influence risk factors are based on 3098 newspaper articles published over 24 years on the impact of climate change in South Korea. The main outcomes for this study were finding climate change risk trend from newspaper articles regarding climate change impacts through text-mining, and figuring out the multi-risk indicators that are likely to occur at the same time with other risk indicators using network analysis. From the network analysis, we found that the major risk indicators have a high degree of interrelationship among risk indicators, including "increase in mortality rate from disaster", "increase in flood areas due to coastal flooding", and "destruction of repair facilities due to flooding (river bank, etc.)". The main risk indicators derived from this study can therefore be used as a reasonable standard when identifying the main risks posed by climate change and defining future adaptation planning priorities.

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A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Kang

Park

2018

Sustainability

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“…Software was developed to systematically poll the Twitter social networking site for the terms "climate change" and "global warming", which resulted in over 2 million tweets collected; after filtering as described in [7], this dataset was reduced to 1.3 million georeferenced tweets. Out of this database, 600 tweets in English published within the 2012-2014 period were randomly selected for further processing.…”

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“…Leas et al [6] analyzed the impact of a celebrity speaking on climate change on social media discussion. Kirilenko et al [7] and Sisco et al [8] analyzed the impact of extreme weather events on attention to climate change in social media.…”

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Crowdsourcing Analysis of Twitter Data on Climate Change: Paid Workers vs. Volunteers

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Web based crowdsourcing has become an important method of environmental data processing. Two alternatives are widely used today by researchers in various fields: paid data processing mediated by for-profit businesses such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and volunteer data processing conducted by amateur citizen-scientists. While the first option delivers results much faster, it is not quite clear how it compares with volunteer processing in terms of quality. This study compares volunteer and paid processing of social media data originating from climate change discussions on Twitter. The same sample of Twitter messages discussing climate change was offered for processing to the volunteer workers through the Climate Tweet project, and to the paid workers through the Amazon MTurk platform. We found that paid crowdsourcing required the employment of a high redundancy data processing design to obtain quality that was comparable with volunteered processing. Among the methods applied to improve data processing accuracy, limiting the geographical locations of the paid workers appeared the most productive. Conversely, we did not find significant geographical differences in the accuracy of data processed by volunteer workers. We suggest that the main driver of the found pattern is the differences in familiarity of the paid workers with the research topic.

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“…Kirilenko et al (2015) detectaram que nos Estados Unidos da América 48% dos artigos publicados relacionados às "mudanças climáticas" e "aquecimento global" eram provenientes de somente dois jornais. Além da mídia, os tweets eram muitas vezes de associações, empresas, organizações não-governamentais e pouco do público em geral.…”

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As mudanças climáticas no Twitter: a ascendência da mídia e da política

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Carvalho

2017

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Artigo recebido em 30 de outubro de 2016, versão final aceita em 1 de fevereiro de 2017. RESUMO:A 21ª Conferência das Partes (COP21) da Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças no Clima foi apontada como a mais promissora reunião para um acordo global de combate aos efeitos das mudanças climáticas e redução da emissão de gases de efeito estufa. Este artigo analisa a comunicação sobre as mudanças climáticas no ambiente online durante o período da Conferência. Os temas debatidos nas redes sociais são suscetíveis a afetar o debate de forma ampla e trazem importantes informações a respeito da opinião pública e de percepções sobre as mudanças climáticas (Williams et al., 2015). Para este fim, o trabalho foca-se na popular rede social Twitter, que tem sido apontada como um termômetro da percepção pública (Brown & Wake, 2015). O Twitter tem mais de 310 milhões de utilizadores ativos por mês, dos quais 79% estão fora dos Estados Unidos da América, o que possibilita analisar outros contextos e fomentar a investigação em idiomas sub investigados, como o espanhol e o português. Lança-se um primeiro olhar sobre os usos e conteúdos publicados no Twitter nas línguas mencionadas visando responder às seguintes questões: Que tipo de conteúdos são mais populares no Twitter sobre mudanças climáticas? Qual a linguagem (palavras e nomes) utilizada para se debater o tema? Até que ponto é que a mídia tradicional é referência relevante no contexto da comunicação sobre as mudanças climáticas na rede social? Quem são os atores que formam esta rede e quais são os mais influentes? Conclui-se, entre outros aspectos, que entre os atores da rede se destacam diversos políticos e que a mídia é referência importante de informação nesta rede social. Nos dados em língua portuguesa, constatou-se um nível de atividade muito elevado dos cidadãos, que dominaram a produção de conteúdos sobre a COP21.Palavras-chave: mudanças climáticas; comunicação; redes sociais; Twitter. ABSTRACT:The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was identified as the most promising summit for a global agreement aiming to combat the effects of climate change and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. This article analyses online communications about climate change during the Conference. The subjects discussed in social networks are likely to affect public debates and provide important information regarding public opinion and perceptions of climate change (Williams et

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People as sensors: Mass media and local temperature influence climate change discussion on Twitter

Cited by 158 publications

References 33 publications

A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Crowdsourcing Analysis of Twitter Data on Climate Change: Paid Workers vs. Volunteers

As mudanças climáticas no Twitter: a ascendência da mídia e da política

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